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America
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Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies was a British author and retired submarine lieutenant-commander who…
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish…
Captain John Smith was an English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important…
Henry the Navigator was an infante of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the…
Michelangelo Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the…
Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and…
Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov was a Russian landowner and statesman, the most notable member…
Asia + Oceania
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Marco Polo was a Christian merchant from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in…
Zheng He, formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet…
Guru Nanak was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is…
Jacques Specx was a Dutch merchant, who founded the trade on Japan and Korea in 1609. Jacques…